I'll chew his ear off.

Twenty20 cricket is the dessert and you can't survive on that. Who wants to eat only desserts?

Sachin Tendulkar resorts to a food analogy to explain the pecking order of cricket's formatsAug 6, 2009

"Maybe they all think it's my last tour."

Sachin Tendulkar on the standing ovations he gets wherever he plays in the world.Mar 20, 2009

"I used to receive letters written in blood, but not anymore."

Sachin Tendulkar reflects on how the adulation directed at him has changed over the yearsFeb 19, 2009

"A batsman is so much covered with protective gears that one might say [Sachin] Tendulkar is playing if I go in the middle to bat."

MS Gill, the Indian sports minister, clearly feels today's cricketers have it far easier than those of the pastJan 23, 2009

"Tall peaks are not always better than long plateaus as true greatness must include protracted excellence."

The ICC explains why their idea of including Matthew Hayden in their list of all-time greats, while excluding the likes of Sachin Tendulkar and Brian Lara, wasn't such a great one after allJan 15, 2009

"I couldn't sleep all this time. I am numb. The images keep playing in my head. This was just not an attack on Mumbai, it is an attack on India."

Sachin Tendulkar recounts the horrors of watching the terrorist attacks on his hometownDec 2, 2008

"Sachin and Sehwag are also spectacular, but when in full flow Yuvraj really stands out."

Mahendra Singh Dhoni praises Yuvraj SinghNov 19, 2008

"It was like holding a Rolex watch and a Patek Phillipe watch and saying which one looks best"

Andrew Symonds pays tribute to the batting of Laxman and Tendulkar in the 2008 Sydney Test, in his book Roy on the RiseNov 14, 2008

"We don't need him to say these things [about Tendulkar] just because he is retired."

Harbhajan Singh delivers his take on the Gilchrist-Tendulkar affairOct 25, 2008

"The archives recall not one single incriminating incident, not one drunken escapade, not one reported affair, not one spat with a team-mate or reporter ... As Matthew Parris wondered of Barack Obama in these pages recently, is he human?"

"I think you are at the wrong press conference."

"Even my father's name is Sachin Tendulkar."

Tendulkar's daughter, Sara, tells her class her father's name after the teacher informs them of a restaurant of the same name in Mumbai May 31, 2008

"Performance is one thing, performing back to back is something else. People may call him [Tendulkar] a sitting elephant, but he's the best. He never said a word, and wanted to let his bat do the talking."

Mahendra Singh Dhoni speaks for his veteran team-mateMar 8, 2008

"With Tendulkar, it's like the elephant in the room that no one wants to talk about."

550,000,000

The approximate number of people in India today who had not been born when Sachin Tendulkar made his Test debut in 1989 (calculated from
these figures). His batting has been so erotically outstanding that the global population has increased by almost 2 billion during his career, with the biggest increase, understandably, in India itself.